linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] virtiofs: fix memory leak in virtio_fs

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Message-ID: <CAJfpegtpjw8OEvVwxvhz91jozt4GU6XxWB4MrKmjNOWVPf_qdw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 12 Apr 2021 17:16:29 +0200
From:   Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:     Luis Henriques <lhenriques@...e.de>
Cc:     Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtio-fs-list <virtio-fs@...hat.com>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] virtiofs: fix memory leak in virtio_fs_probe()

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 9:43 AM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@...e.de> wrote:
>
> When accidentally passing twice the same tag to qemu, kmemleak ended up
> reporting a memory leak in virtiofs.  Also, looking at the log I saw the
> following error (that's when I realised the duplicated tag):
>
>   virtiofs: probe of virtio5 failed with error -17
>
> Here's the kmemleak log for reference:
>
> unreferenced object 0xffff888103d47800 (size 1024):
>   comm "systemd-udevd", pid 118, jiffies 4294893780 (age 18.340s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........
>     ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 80 90 02 a0 ff ff ff ff  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<000000000ebb87c1>] virtio_fs_probe+0x171/0x7ae [virtiofs]
>     [<00000000f8aca419>] virtio_dev_probe+0x15f/0x210
>     [<000000004d6baf3c>] really_probe+0xea/0x430
>     [<00000000a6ceeac8>] device_driver_attach+0xa8/0xb0
>     [<00000000196f47a7>] __driver_attach+0x98/0x140
>     [<000000000b20601d>] bus_for_each_dev+0x7b/0xc0
>     [<00000000399c7b7f>] bus_add_driver+0x11b/0x1f0
>     [<0000000032b09ba7>] driver_register+0x8f/0xe0
>     [<00000000cdd55998>] 0xffffffffa002c013
>     [<000000000ea196a2>] do_one_initcall+0x64/0x2e0
>     [<0000000008f727ce>] do_init_module+0x5c/0x260
>     [<000000003cdedab6>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xb5/0x120
>     [<00000000ad2f48c6>] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
>     [<00000000809526b5>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@...e.de>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
> - Use kfree() to free fs->vqs instead of calling virtio_fs_put()

Applied, thanks.

Miklos